Dear Sir,
I will be grateful if you please publish the
enclosed in your issue and oblige.
With many thanks and kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Dr. (Fr.) Walter de Sá
PRINCIPAL
St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science & Commerce,
Xaviernagar, Mapusa - Goa - 403507 - INDIA.
PRO-LIFE SEMINAR HELD AT ST. XAVIERS COLLEGE
The Department of Philosophy and the Centre of
Value Education for Dialogue, St. Xaviers
College, Mapusa, in collaboration with St. Lukes
Medical Guild, organized a One-Day State Level
Seminar on The Freedom of Choice & the Need to
be Pro-Life: A Focus on Abortion & Euthanasia,
on 27th August 2011.The seminar was held in the
College Seminar Hall from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
In the Inaugural session, the Principal, Dr.
(Fr.) Walter de Sa, expressed his concern over
the degradation of our moral system and the need
for respecting life. The Keynote Address was
delivered by Dr. Wiseman Pinto wherein he
stressed that we should respect life and take
responsibility to safeguard life from the womb to
the tomb. Dr. Pinto focused on the following 6
factors that could be critical in forming
consciences and values in our young generation
today-traditionalism, modernism, secularism,
spiritualism, professionalism and educationalism.
The first session was delivered by Dr. Roshan
Nazareth on the topic Culture of Death. He
emphasized on several issues converging to the
culture of death and supported his statements
with interesting statistics. Dr. Silvano Sapeco,
the resource person for the next session spoke on
the topic Respect for Life. He rightly
stressed on the fact that God is the manager and
owner of our life and we, as stewards of our lives, cannot destroy it.
In the post-lunch session, Fr. Daniel Pereira
delivered a lecture on the Freedom of Choice.
He threw light on the meaning of Freedom of
Choice and the several factors affecting it and
ended with how we can make a choice to promote the growth of life.
The next session was a technical session of paper
presentation which was chaired by Dr. (Ms.) Zinia
Lobo Silva. Five papers were presented with
respect to the themes of the seminar.
The seminar concluded with the Valedictory
Function. The Chief Guest was Dr. Jagadish
Kakodkar who enlightened the audience with his
enriching experiences as a doctor. He said , at
times, to make decisions on euthanasia and
abortion is like a situation where you are caught
between the devil and the deep blue sea. The
seminar ended with the distribution of certificates.
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Dr. (Fr.) Walter de Sá
PRINCIPAL
St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science & Commerce,
Xaviernagar, Mapusa - Goa - 403507 - INDIA.
